C O N T E N T S

1. Characters

1. Prolog
2. Inner Warriors
3. Set 1
4. In Hiroshima
5. Imagine
6. Spheres of Influence
7. Moral Amnesia
8. Nuclear Winter
9. Only a Hamburger?
10. Game Over
11. World Shifts
12. Nuclear Testing
13. One Happy Family
14. Conundrum
15. Target Point
16. What Profit?
17. Islamic Coexistence?
18. Alt.World
19. Peacemaking
20. A Twisted Peace?
21. Set 2
22. Research
23. Pointed Words
24. Piecesong / Peacesong
25. Time Out
26. Dark Threads
27. So Easy?
28. Beyond Destruction
29. $ellout / Sellout?
30. Pigeon Talk
31. Force of Reason
32. Captive Planet
33. Anyone Listening?
    
34. Core Connections
35. Guillotine
36. Peace Circles
37. What If?
38. Ars Pacifica
39. Wreath
40. Weapons Lab
41. War Shadows
42. Kore Memory
43. Slick Designs
44. Non-Violence
45. Bomb Construction
46. Threads of Peace
47. First Contact
48. Chain Reaction
49. Human Beans
50. Nuclear Testing
51. Doing Our Jobs?
52. Nuclear Lullaby
53. Sacrifice
54. Namburgers
55. Set 3
56. CULTivation
57. Join the Action
58. Eco-peace?
59. War Correspondence
60. Indifference
61. Pseudo-Freedom
62. Post-Nuclear Holocost
63. 9 Ways to Peace
64. Careful Now
65. WW III
66. Apocalypse
67. Convictions
68. Do You Mine?
69. Soldier in Iraq
70. It must be Wonder Woman
71. Last Scene
72. At the Root of Violence:
    An Interview with Dr. Paxswell
73. Rejectamenta
74. Dah most revolutionary thang pussible
75. Final Meditation

Peace Pieces:

Reflections on Violence and Conflict Resolution

This is a collection of poems, art works, and prose about peace and conflict resolution. In 1996 I sensed the need to write about militarism, propaganda, and prejudice while working on a collection of environmental poetry, art, and dialogs. As many persons have pointed out, violence and environmental degradation are often related. We need to examine violence closely and understand what factors foster both these phenomena and how alternative paths can be learned.

It is more than a coincidence I started these poems when the Bosnian-Serbian conflict in Europe and the Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Africa were fresh in memory. It was also a year that the U.S. spent over 300 billion dollars on its military machine while over 40 thousand died in various armed conflicts around the world.

Peace Pieces investigates militarism and violence and suggests some alternatives to them. At times satiric and perhaps rabid, these works explore the boundaries between polemic, poetry, and trash. Enjoy the lines, but also pause to consider, "What am I actually doing to promote peace?" If the answer is "not much" then it is time to do more.



Updated 23 Jan. 2021 Yokohama, Japan
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